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Potter Retiring
A fte r leading city into com m unity P olic
ing, Police C h ie f Tom Potter w ill retire
June 30, 1993. Chiefs Dave W illia m s ,
Chuck K arland, Charles Moose are pos
sible candidates.
“ .../Z is our belief that our youth are
whole beings deserving the opportunity
o f a full and meaningful life. ”
A n inform ational picket w ill be conducted
at various sites to make the public aware o f the
problems A fric a n A m erican contractors and
construction workers are having in gaining
contracts and jobs on federally funded h ig h
way construction projects in the state o f O r
Packwood’s
Actions Focus
The Senate select com m ittee on Ethics
makes decision to focus on Senator Bob
Packw ood’ s actions and not the 23
Saturday M arch 13 was Grandparent’ s
nig h t at the house o f Umoja. The House o f
Um oja hosted a w ell spread dinner w hich
included glazed ham, bar-b-que chicken,
tossed salad, deviled eggs, rolls, pound
cake, chocolate mocha, and much more
M usic was provided by Teddy Free-
m an-singing some oldies, but goodies for
the “ older generation, one o f w hich w e all
recognized “ M y G irl ” The younger set
were quite patient about the choice o f tunes.
It was an emphasis on grandparents, but
every age was represented, as w ell as a
‘ broad representative group from the com
m unity. It met one o f the A frica n proverbs
t i n t is in the resident handbook; “ It takes a
w hole village to raise a ch ild .” “ Umoja is
dedicated and fu lly comnutted to saving the
lives o f endangered youth, who would oth
erwise be los to the destruction and devas-
tation o f gang life, drug involvem ent and
egon.
T h is is not a new problem, however, it has
intensified over the past three years. The
w om en’ s sexual histories
Abortion Doctor
Killed
p lig h t o f B lack contractors and highway con
struction workers was like n to that o f the
spotted ow l as early as July 22,1991. Statistics
released by the Oregon Departm ent o f trans
portation (O D O T) in 1990 indicated that thirty -
fo u r Black-owned firm s were certified as dis
advantaged business. O n ly 15 o f these firm s
were able to obtain subcontracts d u rin g the
D avid Gunn paid a h igh price fo r his
b e lie f in womens choice. T h is is a firs t fo r
our nation. He was shot in the back by
M ichael G riffin
Health Proposal
In Jeopardy
previous four years, i.e., since 1987.
In 1991 three Oregon-based B lack firm s
received contracts. By 1992 o nly one Black
firm received awards. Since the new fiscal
The plan to assure health care fo r the
poor in Oregon m ig h t not make it be
cause o f the state governments fin a n cial
year w hich began October 1, 1992, no con
tracts has been awarded to an A fric a n A m e ri
can contractor. O D O T is aware o f this prob
lem but poses no m eaningful solution. Correc
tive measures and suggestions have been met
w ith hostile m ajority contractors, organiza
tions w hich represent them, as w e ll a unions
squeeze.
Yeltsin In Power
Fight
Boris N. Y e lts in ’ s economic reform pro
gram is threatened by the Congress o f
People’ s Deputies. They canceled his
planned referendum and are rejecting
most proposals. He storms out o f session.
vio le n t behavior
...It is our b e lie f that our youth are
whole beings deserving the opportunity o f
and related state agencies. T h is represents
persistent anecdotal evidence that the state
and private construction industry has not pro
vided equal access to contracting and em ploy
ment opportunities and have discrim inated on
New Attorney
Takes Oath
a fu ll and m eaningful life .”
One o f the parents, Marga ret Bain, had
nothing bu, high praise for the program,
she is also a volunteer fo r the program as
w e ll as others that lend themselv es to help
the basis o f race.
On A p ril 10, 1992 congressman Ron
W yden consented to h o ld in g an congressional
hearing on the matter. It was planned fo r later
on in the year, how ever. O D O T has been able
to stonewall the hearing In the meantime the
situation has gotten worse, placing A frica n
Am ericans at the po in t o f extinction in the
Janet Reno takes Oath o f office as A tto r
ney General. She is the firs t women in
that post
King Trial Contin-
ues
A day and a h a lf on the witness stand left
Rodney K in g exhausted as he explained
in g our youth.
Grandparents and other comm unity
members took adv antaged o f the beautiful
surroundings, the good food and a chance
to m ingle and share thoughts and ideas. It
was an evening w e ll w orth the time. Noone
seemed to be in a hurry to leave.
The T ig a rd Tigers took the Oregon Class
4 A h igh school Boys C ham pionship over
H illsboro 52-48.
Snow Hurricane
was learning so much, she says, that she
The next tim e you go shopping, the sales
person w ho helps you could be a form er w el
hardly dared miss a day.
Her p a yo ff was a G ED certificate plus
s k ills and self-esteem that led to a job, a near i t ’ s really hard to heal
Although Measure 5 budget cuts w ould
doubling o fh e r hourly wage in 18 months, and
sharply
reduce jo b tra in in g fo r w elfare recipi
an am bition fo r a better job. “ I
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ents
like
her, Governor Roberts is proposing
guess it was always there,” she
that
$37.8
m illio n in Oregon Lottery revenues
says o f her success, “ but some
and increased beer and wine tax revenues be
body
ju
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had
to
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H er persistence matches used in the next two years to continue getting
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Oregon state governm ent’ s na welfare recipients back to w ork
Here’ s another element o f Oregon w e l
tio n a lly recognized co m m it
fare reform: When a teen-ager becomes preg
ment
to
helping
people
get
and
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nant, she typically drops out o f school to have
stay o ff welfare.
D u rin g th e c a m p a ig n , her baby. But Oregon leads the nation in
president C lin to n talked about getting teen parents to re-enroll in school
32-vear-old Portland resident
w ho is among 600 people a
m onth who make the move
fro m w e lfa rc to w o rk th a n k s to
state-supported jo b training.
The m ile posts along her
W orst ever in our history.
1st Rose Princess Chosen
K u rra Lee Turner, a senior at Central
C atholic H ig h School chosen as firs t rose
road to welfare included her
parents' divorce, the m urder
o fh e r father, alcohol and drug
princess fo r 1993.
abuse that began in the fifth
Public Schools
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yond bartending.
I f that sounds hard, con
sider her path to the workforce
and a good job w ith one o f the
Northwest’s prem ier merchan
School Superintendent Jack B ie rw irth
proposed cuts o f 500 to 600 jobs, e lim i
nating the sports d ivisio n and closing
Vocational V illa g e , “ is going back to
a classroom teacher and a p rin c ip a l.”
disers.
She enrolled in a jo b -tra in
Clinton Potpourri
Considering more cuts; Democrats ad
vance jo b creation package; w ill attend
Portlands’ Forest S um m it; swore in new
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Oregon is at the
forefront o f
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o f welfare,
(raining 600
people a month
fo r jobs that are
s e t ^ g them o ff
welfare. An
Oregonian will
advise the Clinton
administration on
welfare reform.
ing program fo r welfare re
cipients, daily rid in g the bus to M ount Hood
C om m unity College, nearly tw o hours a day
She also walked 16 blocks to get her ch ild to
a babysitter then to the bus stop, sometimes in
the pouring rain w ithout an um brella . She
“ ending welfare as we know
it.” Oregon is already doing
that, trading in the old welfare
model fo r one that stresses jobs,
and we w ill tell that story to the
L ik e A T & T , we want them back
As a result, 85 percent o f Oregon's teen
mothers who dropped out to have their babies
are back in school, and additional mothers are
w a itin g for classes No other state ev en comes
new administration.
N ationally, 10 percent o f
elig ib le welfare heads o f house
holds are in w elfare-to-work
jo b tra in in g . But in Oregon, the figure exceeds
20 percent In a given month, more than 8,000
w elfare recipients are being assisted from
close to those numbers
Since October 1990. about 2,400 teen
parents have earned high-school diplomas or
G E D certificates I ’ve attended their com
mencements, and I've head them talk proudly
w elfare and trained for jobs whose average
starting wage exceeds $6 an hour.
“A Recap Of Black History
Month For 1993”
“Emanuel’s Healthy Kid’s
Fair”
Are we to be the only people on God’s
earth that alleged "historians" are permit
ted to defame and degrade?
Children can meet the life flight crew, see
inside the helicopter and an ambulance
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and tearfully about their achiev ements.
F inishing school is im portant because 49
percent o f current welfare recipients either are
o r were teen parents, rendered uncompetitive
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D u rin g the past year, Sabin C om m unity
Association has increasingly been faced w ith
real public safety concerns over speeding cars
and unregulated intersections. Last year neigh
bors raised concerns about tra ffic speeding
down the lu lls from
the ridge being a
th re a t to school
children The P rin
The Principal o f
Sabin
Elementary
School, Michael
Jordan,
reiterated the
need for push
button crossings
on Prescott and fa
Fremont.
fa
cipal o f Sabin E l
ementary School.
M ic h a e l Jordan,
reiterated the need
fo r push b u tto n
c ro s s in g s
on
Prescott and Fre
mont In our neigh
borhood surveys,
speeding cars and
the need fo r speed
bumps and more regulated intersections turned
out to be o f primary concern to many, many
neighbors. Numerous com plaints have been
made about accidents at unregulated intersec
tions and hit-and-nm s w ith speeding vehicles
crashing into parked cars. Most recently a
speeding car crashed in to a house on Prescott
near 16th, causing serious damage to the
property w hich had been painstakingly im
proved and landscaped over the past year.
In response to this accident, a number o f
neighbors have begun to organize around
speeding cars and public safety p articularly on
Prescott Avenue near N E 15th street They
have sent a letter to the d istrict tra ffic e nginesr
requesting speed bumps o r some other appro
priate measure to control tra ffic in order to
ensure reduced speeds and pedestrian safety.
O n Monday M arch 2, at the Pacific Power
and L ig h t Sabin Community Room, the Sabin
Community Association general meeting fo
cused on speeding cars. C o m m issio n e r
Blumenhauer, Susan Hartnett, director o f
Neighborhood T ra ffic Management and oth
ers spoke on how to go about m aking the
necessary changes to ensure comm unity safety.
Sabin hopes to launch a campaign fo r long
term improvements as a means o f reclaim ing
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in the jo b market ow ing to th e ir failure to
graduate C h ild abuse is a frequent and tragic
companion.
O ur com m itm ent to getting people o ff
welfare— and helping them stay o ff— extends
to a fam ily necessity that recently made
headlineschild care.
In order to help welfare recipients enroll
in classes, get job tra in in g and accept em ploy
ment. the state provides help w ith ch ild care
costs I recently talked to a young mother in
Medford who said that, w ithout this help, she
w ould have been unable to get o ff welfare to
take the jo b she now relishes at w hich she
excels. She’ s only one o f many.
The importance we place on child care is
reflected in O re g o n 'sN o . 2 ranking nationally
in our use o f transitional child care to help
parents and their fam ilies become self s u ffi
cient.
The next tim e someone argues that i t ’ s
time to “ reinvent” welfare, you can nod kn o w
ingly— and point to your state as a model fo r
how to do it
(K e vin W. Concannon is director o f the
Oregon Department o f Human Resources. He
is one o f 10 people, including five governors,
recently named to a national task force to
advise the C linton A dm inistration on welfare
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“Falling Down”
“Thirst For God”
Movie Review: Someone will be hurt
including ourselves, our family and
friends.
I will not ask you to deliver me out o f my
situation because a lot o f it was brought
on by myself.
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Neighborhood
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In Lane County , a welfare recipient re
cently told me that w elfare w ithout jo b tra in
in g is like a crutch— it helps people walk, but
B Y K E V IN W. C O N C A N N O N
fare recipient.
A n example is a woman named Betty, a
It was a snow hurricane that w iped out
the east coast costing at this point 114
lives, temperatures as low as 2 degrees,
hikers missing, a irlines shut dow n, h ig h
ways closed an m illio n s w ith o u t power.
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in his confusion o f what happened two
years ago. " I thought I was going to die.”
attorney general.
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